May 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 741

vided in paragraph 11, the candidates will be subject to the
same regulations as the candidates for appointment by open
competition.*

Three engineer studentships will be given annually to sons
of gentlemen in the colonies on the recommendation of the
Secretary of State for the Colonies, provided they pass the
required examination. These candidates will be subject to
precisely the same regulations as herein laid down for nomi-
nated service candidates.†

2. The number of appointments to be made in each year
   will be fixed by their Lordships.

3. The list of candidates for the appointments by open
   competition will be kept at the office of the Civil Service
   Commissioners. All applications for the forms to be filled
   up by persons who wish to compete must be sent to the
   Secretary, Civil Service Commission, London, S.W., on or
   after the 1st January in each year, and care must be taken
   that the forms when filled up are returned so as to reach the
   Civil Service Commissioners on or before the 15th March
   following, as no notice will be taken of forms received after
   that date. The list of nominated candidates will be kept at
   the Admiralty.

4. Candidates must not be less than fourteen nor more
   than seventeen years of age on the 1st May in the year in
   which they are examined.

5. Evidence of age and character will not be required
   before the examination, but candidates successful in it will
   not be eligible for appointment unless they satisfy the Civil
   Service Commissioners on these points.

6. The medical examination of the successful candidates
   will be held under the authority of their Lordships, as soon
   as possible after the result of the educational examination is
   made known. No candidate will be entered as an engineer
   student unless he is pronounced to be physically fit. Candi-
   dates in or near London will be medically examined by the
   Medical Director-General of the Navy at the Admiralty.
   Those residing near one of Her Majesty's Dockyards, or one
   of the first reserve-ships, or drill-ships of the Royal Naval
   Reserve, or the flagship at Queenstown, will be examined by
   the medical officers attached thereto. The medical examina-
   tions will be conducted in all respects in strict accordance
   with the instructions for the examination of persons for
   admission into the naval service. All candidates at the
   time of their medical examination must produce certificates
   to the satisfaction of the examining officers that they have
   been re-vaccinated, or they must be re-vaccinated before
   they can be considered eligible for entry as engineer students
   in Her Majesty's navy.

7. The educational examination will be held by the Civil
   Service Commissioners in London, Liverpool, Portsmouth,
   Devonport, Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Edinburgh,
   Glasgow, and Dublin, and will take place in the month of
   April of each year. The exact date may be ascertained by
   application to the Secretary, Civil Service Commission, on or
   after the 1st January in each year.

8. The following will be the subjects of the competitive
   examination, and the maximum number of marks for each
   subject :—

Arithmetic .. .. .. .. 300
English—
Handwriting .. .. .. }
Accuracy and intelligence in writing from } 200
dictation .. .. .. }
Composition .. .. .. 150
Grammar .. .. .. .. ——
350
French or German or Italian—
Translation into English .. .. 150
Latin—
Translation into English .. .. 150
Very elementary physics and chemistry† .. 100
Geography (including physical geography) .. 200
Algebra (up to and including quadratic
equations) .. .. .. .. 300
Euclid's elements (Books I. to IV. and
Book VI., and the definitions of Book V.) 300
Freehand drawing .. .. .. 100
——
Total .. .. .. 1,950

All candidates will be tested as to their ability to read

• Applications for nominations must be made so as to arrive at
  the Admiralty before the 1st February in each year, and should be
  addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, if the candidate is the
  son of an officer of the navy or marines; to the Military Secretary,
  Horse Guards, if the candidate is a son of an officer of the army;
  and to the Military Secretary, India Office, if the candidate is the
  son of an officer of the Indian Army.

† The names of the colonial candidates are to be received at the
Admiralty from the Colonial Office on or before the 1st February in
each year.

‡ The examination in physics and chemistry will be easy questions
in—Chemistry: Oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, the nature of
combustion. Physics: Mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, elec-
tricity and magnetism.

aloud with clearness, distinctness, and accuracy, and with-
out hesitation. Stammering or any imperfection of utter-
ance will be regarded as a disqualification.

9. A fee of 10s. will be required from every candidate
   attending an examination.

10. Candidates in the competitive examination who fail to
    pass either in arithmetic, or in handwriting, dictation, and
    composition combined; also those who fail to pass in read-
    ing aloud, will be disqualified, and their other papers will
    not be examined. Successful candidates will be entered as
    engineer students in Her Majesty's navy, according to the
    number of appointments which it may be decided to make
    each year; they will be taken according to their position on
    the examination list. Candidates who obtain less than 880
    marks in the aggregate will not be placed upon the list.

11. The candidates who are nominated by their Lordships,
    and by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, will be re-
    quired to pass the same test examination in the first four
    subjects and in reading aloud as the candidates who enter
    for the competitive examination. They will also be ex-
    amined in the other subjects to ascertain the extent of their
    knowledge and to determine their order of merit, and no
    nominated candidate will be appointed as an engineer stu-
    dent who obtains less than 880 marks in the aggregate.

12. Candidates will be informed by letter from the Civil
    Service Commission of the result of their examination as
    soon as it has been ascertained.

13. The successful candidates will be entered as engineer
    students in Her Majesty's navy on the 1st July in each year,
    and will be borne on the books of the dépôt ship at Devon-
    port for disciplinary purposes. The period of training at
    Her Majesty's dockyard at Devonport will be for five years,
    but it will be reduced to four years in the case of engineer
    students of the latter service who pass the examination de-
    scribed in paragraph 29, clause 1, and also pass very credit-
    ably in practical workmanship, professional subjects, and
    knowledge of engine-room duties referred to in paragraph 32.

14. Students in naval construction not exceeding two in
    number annually will be appointed from among engineer
    students who have shown special ability at the end of their
    second year of service. The students in naval construction,
    on appointment, must join with their parents or guardians
    in a bond for £500 to enter, if required, into Her Majesty's
    service as assistant constructors, if at the expiration of their
    training they should obtain certificates of good conduct and
    efficiency for entry in that capacity. They will continue to
    be under naval discipline until their entry as assistant con-
    structors. (See paragraph 45.)

An assistant constructor will not be permitted to leave the
service until seven years have expired after the completion
of his term at the Royal Naval College at Greenwich, unless
he shall pay the sum of £500. This payment is for the pur-
pose of defraying the charges incurred by the public for his
education.

15. Students in naval construction will complete five
    years' service at Devonport in the training-school for engi-
    neer students, and will be subject to the same conditions
    as to fees, pay, uniform, and other details as may be pre-
    scribed from time to time for engineer students. Their
    course of instruction will be laid down from time to time.
    (See also paragraphs 40 to 48.)

16. The parent or guardian of each engineer student en-
    tered will be required to pay the sum of £40 per annum for
    each year the student may be under training—four, five, or
    six* years as the case may be. It will, however, be at the
    discretion of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to
    select from among the students entered at each yearly ex-
    amination a number not to exceed five, being sons of offi-
    cers of the navy, army, or Royal marines, or of Civil officers
    under the Board of Admiralty, with respect to whom the
    annual payment will be £25 only. Their Lordships also re-
    serve the power to further reduce this latter sum in the case
    of sons of officers killed or drowned, or who have otherwise
    lost their lives on service. In making their selection, my
    Lords will have regard solely to the pecuniary circumstances
    of the parents or guardians of the students.

17. The payments are to be made half-yearly, in advance,
    to the Cashier of Her Majesty's Dockyard at Devonport; the
    first payment is to be made on or before the 1st July, the
    date of entry of the student, and the subsequent payments
    on or before the 1st January and 1st July, during the re-
    mainder of the student's training. Should a student leave
    from any cause, or be dismissed from the service, not any
    portion of the payments that have been made in his behalf
    will be refunded.

18. The parents or guardians of the students will also be
    required to provide the uniform (see paragraph 51) or other
    clothing, washing, and necessaries of each student. Board
    and lodging and medical attendance will be provided by the
    Admiralty. The students will be required to reside in the
    training-school at Keyham.

• See paragraphs 30 and 31.